Young Football Player

In the third round of the UEFA Champions League group stage, there were actually quite a few upsets.

Defending champion Chelsea lost 1:2 away to Shakhtar Donetsk, Manchester City lost 1:3 away to Ajax, AC Milan lost 0:1 away to Malaga, Juventus was forced away by North Zealand 1:1 Ping, these are all unpopular.

But these upsets are not as good as Arsenal's 0:3 home defeat to Schalke 04.

Regarding this game, the major sports media in England and Germany directly gave the headlines.

"Bruce Lee Shuangxiang, Schalke 04 beat Arsenal with three goals away"

"The Gunners were defeated 3:0 in the away game, and the Royal Blue Emirates Stadium made a splash"

"For the first time in team history, the Miners won their first win in England"

The German media all praised Schalke 04's performance. This is not only Schalke 04's first victory in England, but also a big victory over a famous team like Arsenal.

The English media, on the other hand, criticized Arsenal.

"Shame, Arsenal suffered a three-goal defeat at home"

"Super Blues' bloodthirsty counterattack, the gunmen were massacred at home"

In short, in the reports of the English media, there are all kinds of words of shame and fiasco.

The English media made a three-none summary for Arsenal's fiasco: no offense in the frontcourt, no defense in the backcourt, and no confidence in the players.

In recent years, although Arsenal have not been very competitive in the Champions League, they have at least played well at home and rarely lose at home, let alone a three-goal defeat. .

The last time Arsenal suffered a three-goal defeat at home in the Champions League was the first round of the UEFA Champions League group stage in the 03/04 season, when they lost 0:3 at home to Inter Milan.

But that time, Arsenal reported their revenge on the spot. In the Champions League group stage of that season, Arsenal went to an away game to beat Inter Milan 5:1 in the fifth round. Keep their teams from qualifying.

So this time, while criticizing Arsenal, the English media also challenged Arsenal, asking Arsenal to go to an away game in the second round to complete revenge just like they played against Inter Milan.

In this round of the Champions League group stage, while Schalke 04 beat Arsenal 3-0 away, Olympiacos also beat Montpellier 2-1 away.

The defending champion of Ligue 1 looks really weak. Not only is it hard to find a victory in the three rounds of the group stage, but he hasn't even won a draw yet.

So in the group where Schalke 04 is located, after three rounds of matches, Schalke 04 ranked first with 9 points in three consecutive victories, Arsenal ranked second with 6 points, and Olympiacos ranked third with 3 points.

The other two Champions League teams in the Bundesliga also gained victories. Dortmund won Real Madrid 2:1 at home. This is a very important victory. Dortmund wants to qualify from that super death group. You have to get points.

As for Bayern, they went to an away game to beat Lille 1-0, and also managed to get three points.

At present, the Champions League group stage has played three rounds. The three Bundesliga teams are all ranked first in their own groups, and the qualifying situation is quite good.

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After returning from an away game in London, Schalke 04 will prepare for the league again.

On October 27th, in the ninth round of the Bundesliga, Schalke 04 played against Nuremberg at home.

Nuremberg played well at the beginning of the season, with 2 wins and 1 tie in the first three rounds of the league. The only tie was the defending champion Dortmund.

But after the three tricks in the first three rounds, they couldn't do it anymore. Now they have lost four games in a row and won five consecutive rounds.

Facing such a poor team at home, Schalke 04 did not play easily.

The main reason is that they spent too much energy in the away game in London in the middle of the week, and the whole team was not in a good state.

In the 78th minute of the second half, Huntelaar's shot created a corner kick, and then Matip scored a header from the corner kick, finally breaking the deadlock.

With a height of 1.95 meters, Matip is the tallest man in the Schalke 04 team, so he can often win headers.

Although the process was difficult, Schalke 04 still scored three points in an affordable 1:0 at home.

In the other Bundesliga games on the second day, good news came one after another. First, Bayern lost 1:2 at home to Leverkusen, and then Frankfurt lost 1:2 away to Stuttgart.

This time the ranking in the Bundesliga standings has changed.

Bayern continued to occupy the top spot with 7 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss and 22 points, but Schalke 04 has caught up after this win.

Schalke 04 currently has 6 wins, 3 draws and 21 points, only one point away from the top Bayern.

After the loss, the dark horse Frankfurt fell to third place with 19 points, followed by Dortmund and Leverkusen with 15 points.

And after Bayern lost this time, Schalke 04 is already the only unbeaten team left in the Bundesliga.

Schalke 04 is not only unbeaten in the Bundesliga, but also unbeaten in all competitions.

The Bundesliga has 6 wins and 3 draws in 9 games, 3 consecutive victories in the Champions League, and one victory in the German Cup. Taken together, it is 13 unbeaten games in all competitions.

If you add the unbeaten in the last three Bundesliga games of last season, Schalke 04 is already unbeaten in 16 games across the season.

The record of 16 unbeaten games is not a long record. The dominant teams in the major European leagues are unbeaten for 30 to 40 games at every turn, but for Schalke 04, this is already the second longest in team history Unbeaten record.

The longest unbeaten record in the history of Schalke 04 is only 18 games.

So now, Schalke 04 has the opportunity to tie or even create history.

Unbeaten in the first 13 games, currently the only unbeaten team in the Bundesliga, these have attracted a lot of attention to Schalke 04. Gram 04 on the head.

At this time, the chairman of the Schalke team, Clemens Tenis, was a little bit flustered and began to speak nonsense in front of the media.

"There is no doubt that our unbeaten run will continue and we will set new records."

"And to put it bluntly, we will strive to win the Bundesliga championship this season with an unbeaten record, and even the German Cup championship..."

MD, what are you talking about now, just talk about undefeated winning the championship, why don't you say that undefeated won the Triple Crown?

There is no awareness of keeping a low profile and saving character, it is really out of stock.

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Although the chairman doesn't know how to keep a low profile, Schalke 04's game will continue, and the unbeaten record will continue.

On October 30th, Schalke 04 played against Sandhausen at home in the mid-week DFB-Pokal match.

Sandhausen is not only a Bundesliga team, but also a newly promoted Bundesliga team, so Hub Stevens arranged a half-rotation lineup at home to give the frontcourt offensive players a rest.

It can be seen from the Nuremberg league game on the weekend that the team is a little tired up and down, so I just took this opportunity to take a break.

However, the team management seems to have given instructions to try to maintain the unbeaten record.

Anyway, the undefeated record must not be ended on this underdog team.

Therefore, although important players such as Lee Chenglong and Huntelaar did not play, they also sat on the bench and stood by.

However, they were useless. The goals of Macari, Pukki and Barnetta allowed Schalke 04 to easily beat their opponents 3:0 at home and successfully advanced to the top 16 of the German Cup.

After winning this game, Schalke 04's cross-season unbeaten came to 17 games, which is only one game away from the team history record.